I’ve always had a problem with the term unborn.  Would that make me undead?

Anyway, as you have heard the Great State of Texas wants to require women who have miscarriages or abortions to either bury or cremate the fetal material.  District Judge Sam Sparks temporarily blocked this last month saying that it may violate a woman’s constitutional rights.

The Supreme Court standard on abortions is that when a rule creates an undue burden on women or when the burdens of the rule outweigh the benefits, then it’s unconstitutional.  So, Sparks is holding hearings where both sides can present their case.

On our side: the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Texas believes that the rule will add about $2,000 to the cost of an abortion.

On their side: well, we didn’t mean actual burial.

The State of Texas says they meant a mass burial at $2 per fetus.

The mass grave appears to be the Department of State Health Services’ attempt to work around this problem. In court, Sims alleged that bulk burial would bring the cost down to $2 per buried fetus. This discount would remove the burden created by the rule, rendering it constitutional.

Bulk burial? Well, I’ll be damn. Ain’t that just real dignified?

Good God, Texas, you have no class whatsodamnever.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.